Welcome to another DIY Monday! I’ve been collecting vintage thermos’ for the past few years. While I love them, I feel like some of them are more appropriate for Autumn decor. I decided to ‘cover’ some of the patterned thermos’ during the Spring/Summer for a different look and feel. This weeks DIY is fresh, pretty and and can be done without crochet or knitting skills. Enjoy!
Here’s a Before & After shot of the project I am sharing today…
Step 1: Choose your own perfect mix of Spring/Summer colors.
Step 2: Crochet, knit or braid small strings that snugly fit your thermos and tie them on the back with a double knot. Fill the entire patterned part of the thermos with these small cords until it is completely covered. You can use as many layers of cords are you want to create larger or smaller stripes. I used two cords per color to create a small stripe.
Step 3: Trim the excess. Keep all the knots on a row.
Step 4: Stitch up and down the row of knots. The more times you stitch up and down, the more secure it will be. I recommend 4 times (or up and down twice).
Step 5: Pull the entire cover off and turn it inside out. This will hide most of the knots so the back of your thermos has a cleaner look! Then, put it back on. Once it is back on the thermos you’ll want to straighten out the cords again and space them out so they cover the thermos entirely.
Happy Monday! XO. elsie
41 Comments
so cute! i love those colours xoxo
what a lovely idea! so cute and colorful! 🙂
cute! i’m sure you can do that for vases and bottles as well! 🙂
cute little idea there, elsie! 🙂 and i love laura’s idea of vases, too. fabulous!
Oh my gosh that is darling and decently easy to do. Really cute project.
a great idea! very simple, and so, so cute!
Super cute idea!
oh now that IS cute – I might have to give this a whirl to cover up my boring stainless steel thermos.
Thanks so much for posting – love how you turn it inside out to hide the knots.
Adorable!!! 🙂
That’s a great idea! I’m going to make one tonight for my bodum. Thanks for sharing!
I like what you’ve done with it, but I gotta tell you, I love the plaid pattern. My grandpa carried that Thermos with him to work at the GM factory in Ohio every single day for 50 years. Seeing that Thermos made me nostalgic for my Grandpa!
ooooooo!! this is so so cute!!!
Ooooooo. Love this! Time to do this with my collection of sauce jars.
it looks so colorful and lovely.
haha…so THAT’s what you were up to!
Very cute!
Char
Adorable! <3
I looooovee this.
super duper cute!
Way fun idea!
~Tamara Nicole~
Super cute, as always, Els!
-Briana
I love this project and the creative use of yarn! The colors give new life to the thermos and make it so unique.
I <3 yarn and use it to embellish everything. I even started an Etsy shop based on the love!
darling, darling 🙂 i love the colors you use. yarn has such a pretty texture.
This is adorable! I am going to try this out! I adore the colours you have used, so fiesta summer =D
xx
I love this! I am definitely going to pick out some bright yarn for this! I am sad to see winter go every year, but those night colors just might make me happy for spring time!
Woweee!!!
Soo cute 🙂
Ahh! I have a little fat red thermos, we put hot chocolate in it and take it to the park in Fall!
We also have a 1970’s coolbox for summer 🙂 It’s brown, white and orange!!
I love this, its soo cute!
xx
Judith ^Hartje-Bloem^
how cute is this!? i love all your DIY posts because they always seem like anyone can do them, no matter your crafting level!
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cute project, thanks for posting these DIY projects :]
Aahhhh that’s so cute, and super duper insulated too! I may have to start on one for my soup flask to take to work 😀
Oh elsie! I adore this. To bad I don’t have enough sewing skills.
ps. Just to let you know, you are my role model!
<3 aly
What a cute idea! I’m going to apply this to my favorite traveling coffee cup instead; it has snowboarding penguins and skiing snowmen all over it, and I get strange looks when using it in the spring and summer. 🙂
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so awesome, i love it.
I’m going to apply this to my favorite traveling coffee cup instead; it has snowboarding penguins and skiing snowmen all over it
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did this with multi-purples soft wool yarn and it is the cutest thermos sweater i own! 😉 lol! i love it.